Hanamaruhanamaru

なみ

wave

nami

JLPT
N3
Frequency
#2,303

Meanings

  1. 1
    wave; billow; ripplen
  2. 2
    ups and downsn
  3. 3
    (something) advancing step by step; (something) surging forward inopposably; succession of changesn

JMdict 1470970

In a sentence

なみwaveたかい高いtall

The waves are high

How it works

Here (subject) marks なみ (wave) as the subject — the thing being described. The predicate is the -adjective 高いたかい (high), which can end the sentence on its own; no です (is) is needed in this plain, casual form. Word order is the reverse of English: subject first, description last.

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